Eric - would such a procedure be supported? Kathryn - based on Eric's response we may need to proceed with this bug otherwise I will close it.
So long as the process it QE'ed we could support it. We should also extend this to work with Swift (an object storage solution used by OpenStack/CEPH). This way we have an on Prem (with OpenStack/CEPH) and Hosted Solution(S3, could also be extended to GCP, Azure, etc) as S3 and SWIFT api's are both commonplace in the Object Storage realm. With that said; we should treat this as a product RFE.
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